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rofessor Wickstrom is trained as a director and after receiving her M.F.A. wrote, produced and performed for eight years in New York City with an experimental theatre/performance company that she co-founded, Zone West. The group also performed in San Diego, Los Angeles, New Orleans, and Chicago, funded by the Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art supported by the Jerome Foundation; New York State Council on the Arts; the Puffin Foundation, and others. She received her Ph.D. from the Graduate Center/CUNY. She is currently the coordinator of the Drama Program at CSI. She directs plays at CSI each year, choosing a range of contemporary and classic texts from Euripides, to Moliere, to Buchner, to Naomi Wallace. She also mentors student work each year - ranging from conventional small theatre pieces to performance work.
Wickstrom is also on the Doctoral Faculty in the Theatre Department at the Graduate Center/Cuny. At the Graduate Center she has taught seminars such as "Performance and Empire," "Lines of Flight: Transglobal Movement, Theatrical Interventions, Political Challenge," and "History of Theatrical Theory."
Professor Wickstrom' s book, Performing Consumers: Global Capital and it Theatrical Seductions, 2006, is published by Routledge Press (London and New York).
The book is a series of theorized case studies in the ways that corporations use theatrical, embodied methods to absorb consumers into brands. Stores in the book included Niketown, Ralph Lauren, Disney, and the Forum Shops in Las Vegas. She has also published an article on Disney in the anthology, Rethinking Disney: Private Control, Public Dimensions from Wesleyan Press, and essays in leading theatre journals, including Theatre Journal, Modern Drama, Theatre Survey, Theatre Annual, Journal o f Dramatic Theory and Criticism, and PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art. Professor Wickstrom regularly gives papers at major theatre conferences and is preparing a new book project called Human Movement in Performance: at the Intersections of Neoliberalism, International Law, and Human Rights.